exploring people and places one plate at a time

September 25, 2005

Food for Thought - Crescent

It's Sunday, Sirine's day off. They sleep late and make a breakfast from the fruit trees and garden in the building's courtyard: sweet oranges, tangerines, tomatoes, grapefruit, avocado. They sit on a fold-out aluminum love seat on his balcony with plates and knives and a bowl of salt. A trail of juice runs along her fingers and Han kisses her palms. -excerpt from the novel, Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber